Non IRC based live chat for collaboration?

[Tony Del Porto]

On May 5, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Nicole wrote:

> So might anyone be able to recommend an alternative live chat type of system where people can freely sign in and out of.  (for instance we cannot use skype conference as they have to be invited in)  Would prefer something open sourced we would install or some free service.  (does Google maybe have anything like that,. they seem to have everything)

Google Wave?

This talk isn't the best, but gives a good overview:

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/stream1/berlin.html

Tony